Novembre Numérique (Digital November)

Since 2017, the Institut français and the French cultural network abroad organize Novembre Numérique (Digital November), the international digital cultures festival around the world. 
Novembre Numérique (Digital November) is an invitation to question the place of digital cultures in our societies...

Updated on 18/04/2024

  • Members of French diplomatic network
  • Programmes
  • Digital creation

Our future - Africa-Europe dialogues

Continuing dialogue and building new foundations for relations between Africa and Europe: the core of the Our future - Africa-Europe dialogues project. Inspired by the proposals of the committed young people who took part in the New Africa-France Summit on 8 October 2021 in Montpellier, but also by...

Updated on 18/04/2024

  • Insight
  • Public debate

Yoon-Sun Park, author and illustrator, selected for the Pepites internationales 2024

Comic book author and illustrator, Yoon-Sun Park explores the world around us and her own memories through personal works that blend intimacy and madness. In L'Incroyable Mademoiselle Bang!, she pursues her interest in Korean traditions with a breathtaking adaptation of a 19th century novel. This...

Updated on 17/04/2024

  • Portrait
  • Graphic novel

Immersion in Julien Creuzet's project at the French Pavilion of the Biennale Arte 2024

Discover Julien Creuzet's original work, Attila cataracte ta source aux pieds des pitons verts finira dans la grande mer gouffre bleu nous nous noyâmes dans les larmes marées de la lune, which represents France at the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia (Saturday 20 April to...

Updated on 17/04/2024

  • Close up
  • Visual arts

Press conference for the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

The 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia will open to the public from 20 April to 24 November 2024. Julien Creuzet, a multi-talented artist, visual artist, video maker and poet, has been chosen by an international jury to represent France. 

Updated on 17/04/2024

  • Close up
  • Visual arts

On tour in Ireland with Miroirs Étendus and "Elsewhere"

With Elsewhere, the Miroirs Étendus company presents its latest operatic creation with the true story of the first Soviet outside the USSR. With a modern aesthetic inspired by contemporary theatre, the opera adapts Michael Gallen's striking libretto, co-written with poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin and...

Published on 17/04/2024

  • Work
  • Music

French cultural network's digital facilities

In Africa, Asia, America and Europe, Instituts français and Alliances Françaises are continuing to digitally equip their screening rooms with the support of the National Centre for Cinema and the Animated Image (CNC), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UniFrance and the Institut français.

Updated on 16/04/2024

  • Members of French diplomatic network
  • Programmes
  • Cinema

IF Export

IF Export aims to support international projects led by French artists or artists living in France (mainland or overseas communities) in the cultural and creative fields.
The Institut français supports live, hybrid or fully digital projects (for the French artistic teams facing difficulties...

Updated on 15/04/2024

  • French professionals
  • Foreign professionals
  • Programmes
  • Visual arts
  • Photography
  • Design
  • Arts & Crafts
  • Music
  • Digital creation
  • Theatre
  • Dance
    • Street Arts / Circus / Puppetry

Gilles Bloch, président du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle

The Musée national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN) and the Institut français work in partnership to promote scientific culture in the French diplomatic network abroad. MNHN president Gilles Bloch discusses the digital creation implemented within the museum, as well as the challenges of this partnership...

Updated on 15/04/2024

  • Interview
  • Sciences
  • Digital creation

Agra, on release in cinemas

With Agra, Kanu Behl delivers an angry and intense second film, which testifies to the tortures of an Indian society that is suffocating. Through his hero, an entire patriarchal world is presented in a breathtaking setting. Selected for the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes in 2023, it is now released...

Updated on 12/04/2024

  • Work
  • Cinema

Creation Africa

The Creation Africa program supports African Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) and broadens France's scope of action to new partnerships on the continent.

Updated on 12/04/2024

  • Foreign professionals
  • Programmes
  • Multidisciplinary

Création Africa Mobility program

As part of the Création Africa program in support of cultural entrepreneurship, the Institut français is implementing a mobility program at the 2024 Venice Art Biennale. The goal of this program is to amplify and strengthen professionals and art centers that participate in shaping the future of the...

Updated on 12/04/2024

  • Project
  • Visual arts